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A plea of help (computers)

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Topic: A plea of help (computers)

Posted By: Darur
Subject: A plea of help (computers)
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 7:20pm

Well, that grapics card I was so happy about decided it really hates me. Right now I am running off the built-in grapics card on my PC, so the forum and all programs are "icky".

Does anyone know what I should do? The card is in right, and we did everything right (started up PC, installed the standerd drivers, than installed the specific drivers) but it wont work right. Any help is greatly appriciated. Thanks!

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Posted By: †Sniper†
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 7:28pm

uhh...what card do you have.

(dont expect help from me about comp's, im just gettin the party started...)

Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 7:30pm

Its a GeForce FX 5700 Verto card (I thinkt thats the correct order of words). I run Windows ME.

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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 7:36pm

Hmmm, would reinstalling windows do anything?

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Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 7:54pm

did you disable the onboard video,if possible?

try fully removing the previous vid card drivers then installing the latest nvidia ones.

what do you mean by "icky"?

Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 8:01pm

youm0nt wrote:

did you disable the onboard video,if possible? Um, no. I will try that.

try fully removing the previous vid card drivers then installing the latest nvidia ones. I shall also try that.

what do you mean by "icky"?

Graphics are "icky". I cant see a lot of things because I am on the built in graphics card right now.

Thanks for the help guys and keep it comming please.

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Posted By: VisionIMP
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 8:02pm

does it display the screen when the monitor is plugged into the card? Do what youmont said.

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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 21 August 2004 at 8:09pm

VisionIMP wrote:

does it display the screen when the monitor is plugged into the card? Do what youmont said.

Nope, the screen goes blank.

Unfortunetly, this computer apperntly doesnt have an onboard graphics card, so i have no clue what its using. As for the old drivers, we havent disabled them (i can find them), but I think they are disabled because we are apperently running off the Nvida drivers.

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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 12:14am

Darur wrote:

Its a GeForce FX 5700 Verto card (I thinkt thats the correct order of words). I run Windows ME.

That's probably half the problem right from the start...

But seriously, first make sure the graphics card is properly seated in it's slot. Disable the onboard video in BIOS. Go into Windows, and delete your Display Adaptor in Device Manager. Let Windows reboot, and upon next reboot, try installing the proper drivers.

Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 2:45am

I got it to work (yay!)

I dont know what the problem was, but we reformatted the PC and reinstalled windows. The version we had was to out-of-date. Its running now.

Thanks again for all the help guys!

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Posted By: Solipsism
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 2:58am

Darur wrote:

I run Windows ME.

Well now we know why it doesn't work.

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Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 3:25am

Darur wrote:

I dont know what the problem was, but we reformatted the PC and
reinstalled windows. The version we had was to out-of-date.
Its running now.

You could have just updated your drivers instead of wasting all that time.

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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 3:27am

Hades wrote:

Darur wrote:

I dont know what the problem was, but we reformatted the PC and
reinstalled windows. The version we had was to out-of-date.
Its running now.

You could have just updated your drivers instead of wasting all that time.

We did, about 5 times.